[PDF] Top 20 COMMENTS AND CONTROVERSIES Why Voxel-Based Morphometry Should Be Used

... There is a near infinite number of ways in which the shapes of brains can differ among populations of sub- jects. Many thousands or millions of parameters are required to precisely describe the shape of a brain at the ... See full document

... approach based on Diffeomorphic Anatom- ical Registration Through Exponentiated Lie Algebra (DARTEL) was used for preprocessing and subsequent analyses of whole brain T1-weighted volumetric images ... See full document

... as voxel based morphometry (VBM) and cortical thickness have suggested reduced GM volume in chronic pain (Apkarian et ...been used to evaluate WM microstructure by assessing molecular ... See full document

... For the present study we recruited fifty adult subjects (mean age 46.7 ± 13.1, 12 males) complying with the DSM-IV-TR criteria for depressive episode (single or recurrent) of major depressive disorder (n=39) or bipolar ... See full document

... customized gray matter by averaging the smoothened and normalized images of all of the participants. T1-weighted MR images were nor- malized to the standard T1 template of the Montreal Neurologic In- stitute (MNI). The ... See full document

... before the MR imaging. Physiologic tests included pulse rate and arterial blood pressure measures, arterial blood gas analysis, and pulmonary function measures. Blood samples were taken in the morning between 7:00 and ... See full document

... have used an integrated multi-modal model to determine the impact of WMHs, lacunar lesions, microhemorrages, mean apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and brain parenchymal fraction (BPF) on cognition and ... See full document

... At first, all scans were converted from DICOM to NIfTI format using MRIConvert (https://lcni.uoregon.edu/downloads/ mriconvert). The postprocessing was performed with SPM12 in a Matlab R2016a (MathWorks, Natick, ... See full document

... scanner used to obtain the pediatric template and to account for differences between our sample and the sample used for the ...a voxel, a further modulation step was ... See full document

... In this study, we used voxel-based morphometry and le- sion symptom mapping methods to explore MRI correlates of PASAT performance in MS. Poorer performance was correlated with atrophy of ... See full document

... healthy controls were also recruited (n ⫽ 20). These were spouses of patients or subjects from affected families who were known not to carry the HD gene. Subjects gave written informed consent, and the study had local ... See full document

... The pre-processed images were entered into a series of multiple regression models in SPM5. A statistical threshold of p<0.05 corrected for the whole-brain volume at a cluster level using the ‘Non-Stationary Cluster ... See full document

... We used Statistical Parametric Mapping soft- ware (SPM5; The Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London) to apply the VBM unified segmentation protocol ...was used in the SPM ... See full document

... was used to evaluate the regions where the clinical groups show similar structural differences compared to the TD ...calculated based on the sample size of each ... See full document

... particularly FEV1 and MEF50. FEV1 and MEF50 are markers used to assess airway obstruction and detect early small airway diseases such as COPD and asthma in clinical practice [30]. These alterations might be ex- ... See full document

... changes based on voxel-based morphometry (VBM), an automated and widely used, whole brain analysis method, has provided evidence of bilateral regional GM volume increases in the ... See full document

... Data analyses on self-ratings and polysomnography were performed using the STATA Statistical Software, v. 15.0 (STATA, College Station, TX, USA). Quality checked and preprocessed brain images were entered into second ... See full document

... A total of 55 studies were found from the search criteria, with 6 passing all the inclusion and exclusion criteria (Tae et al. 2010, Coan et al. 2009, Bernasconi et al. 2004, Bouilleret et al. 2008, McMillan et al. 2004, ... See full document

... was used post hoc for hypothesis testing and to generate fit statistics for models of relations between alcohol use, brain measures, and cognitive ...the voxel based morphometry, tract ... See full document

... chose voxel-based morphometry (VBM) because this method had proved sensitive to detect subtle gray matter (GM) changes in numerous group studies on neuropsychiatric disorders, whereas only few ... See full document